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Linkage exclusion and mutational analysis of the noggin gene in patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP).
Clinical genetics - 1 Oct 2000
Xu M Q, Feldman G, Le Merrer M, Shugart Y Y, Glaser D L, Urtizberea J A, Fardeau M, Connor J M, Triffitt J, Smith R, Shore E M, Kaplan F S
Abstract excerpt
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an extremely rare and disabling genetic disorder characterized by congenital malformation of the great toes and by progressive heterotopic endochondral ossification in predictable anatomical patterns. Although elevated levels of bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) occur in lymphoblastoid cells and in lesional cells of patients with FOP, mutations have not been...
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